Important way to reduce violence

1:10 AM,
Feb. 28, 2013

A selection of guns at Ron's Pawn and Gun in Des Moines. (Christopher Gannon/The Register)

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Another gun tragedy unfolded in Des Moines last weekend. On Saturday, a teenage boy accidentally shot and wounded his 13-year-old friend. The boys were visiting the shooter's godfather, a man who believed that exposing young people to guns would make them safer.

The police confiscated eight guns from the home after the shooting, but apparently there was at least one left behind. The next day, the man was found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The entire ordeal is heartbreaking. But it is also a reminder of perhaps the most important lesson in reducing gun ...